Xpander Sound Comparison Experiment
2010-09-08 by envia94
Let me start a new discussion under this title, referring to a previous message: "Someone who is good at patching, come up with a great bass patch (and some others), and record a few notes of that patch. Upload the patch, notes text file, and audio file to the Yahoo site. Then we can all download the patch, listen to the audio file and compare it to the sound on our own boxes. Of course, there will be some differences due to the audio playback on each system, but it would still be an interesting experiment. I never though the bass sounded good on my Xpander. What do the rest of you think??" ... I think it is a fact that waves' rise times are not the fastest and we have discussed about replacing old op's (operational amplifiers) with better and faster new ones. However, the original sound is good just as it is, in my opinion. The idea of sound patches for comparison is strongly supported! Please, add your patches with documentation in Files - Patch Banks and/or audio to Demos. Good audio files can already be listened under the Files - Demos menu. To tell my opinion, Xpander random bass sound seldom if ever sound the best on the market, but the good thing is that you can always improve it and it can sound really unique. Here is an expert's opinion and a "moody demo song made with an Oberheim Xpander only. Recorded with multitracker to show off the possibilities for doing percussive sounds, which is often said that the Xpander can`t do this. Sure used some Delay in mixing process. Note: Even the drums & percussions are made with this synth!!" http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/kFCHTOcNwYhwCOktvs_EoGUrID5W1kM352XCbntCNv_siUtTE5bggYAaMB983P1SIevhGNh5zFauh2kVs5dBvg/Demos/Xpander_Demo_noiseprofessor.mp3 I like this especially well too: http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/kFCHTM88-hRwCOktCOqWQ26BWu_FSX13zfKvtH5qh38nudVc0Oi2ACFY1Cp2MwTwiwg-U9_aUhEHdW85tIGWgA/Demos/xpander_with_JD-800_Theo.mp3 And, the latter is an example how stacking Xpander with and an other good synth can give you a marvellous synthesis as a result. I experiensed this once really strongly, when playing Xpander together with the Solina String Ensamble. I had just a simple Xpader bass sound and when I took a chord from Solina over it, something marvellous happened when the sounds combined together. It sounded very deep up and down, when a Leslie kind of effect attached to the bass sound, too. It felt like magic! Tiitu